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On Instagram, 23-year-old singer and songwriter Sasha Sloan is @sadgirlsloan. Her two EPs are titled Sad Girl and Loser. Before she dropped the latter at the end of November, she posted a steely selfie with the caption, "my ep comes out in far less than a week I hope it doesn't suck lol." That self-deprecation is integral to her persona, likely both an organic extension of her actual ..
Read MoreThe center of Kacey Musgraves' dazzling Golden Hour, an album you will be listening to for the rest of your life, hardly lasts more than a minute. On its fifth song, "Mother," she wanes poetic over a lonely piano about shouldering the weight of the world. "I'm just sitting here," she sighs, "thinkin' bout the time that's slipping, and missing my mother." Then: "And she's probably sit..
Read MoreJoJo's Instagram bio reads, "!!!!!!!!!," And that's exactly how her fans are feeling now. The singer is celebrating her 28th birthday today (December 20), however she's the one giving us the ideal present ever: new music. Or, more accurately, old music made brand new again. On Thursday afternoon, JoJo started flooding her social media accounts with rerecorded snippets of her beloved ..
Read MoreTove Lo just made 2017's Blue Lips more available to deaf communities by dropping a playlist of American Sign Language interpretations of every song on the album. In an announcement posted to her social media, the "Talking Body" singer explains her partnership with Amber G Productions, a company for ASL interpreters at live music events. Every one of the 12 ASL videos videos featur..
Read MoreFor pretty much the complete time Halsey has been in the public eye, she's proven enthusiastic about representing the LGBTQ community in her art — visualize "Strangers" and "Bad at Love" as proof. And, similarly as essential, she hasn't been afraid to stand up for herself once people criticize her for it — which is exactly what she did on Tuesday night (December 18). Taking the s..
Read MoreEvery year once fans file into SnowGlobe Music Festival's winter wonderland in California, the EDM-centric bash becomes a big jamboree of pulsating rhythms and dazzling lights. This year, though, six new heavyweights have been added to the mix, giving fest goers a whole new set of music to lose themselves in. G-Eazy, Goldlink, Kaskade, Rae Sremmurd, Tyga, and Ashe will all perform at..
Read MoreAriana Grande's "Imagine" is excellent. Its slow-burn tenderness is a nice counterpoint to the punchy virality of "Thank U, Next," and "Imagine" opens itself up further the more you listen and find resonance within your own life and by way of the your own experiences. Tuesday night (December 18), Ari brought that same grace to The Tonight Show, where she debuted the song on TV for the..
Read MoreLately, it seems like each person who passes through BBC Radio 1's Live Lounge feels compelled to cover a Ariana Grande song. In just the past few weeks, The 1975 put a synthy spin on "thank u, next," while both Mumford & Sons and Alessia Cara turned in their own renditions of "Breathin." Right now, the cover train keeps it up and continues to roll, with Miley Cyrus and Mark Ronson ho..
Read MoreA week immediately after Alessia Cara wowed us with her killer Destiny's Child medley, she's back with another perfect cover arrangement. This time, the 22-year-old visited BBC Radio 1's Piano Sessions to perform a more contemporary tune: Ariana Grande's "Breathin." Nixing the original version's big pop production, Cara stripped the Sweetener single to its emotional core and dressed ..
Read MoreOpen your burn book and master the bend and snap! This Saturday at 1 p.M., The spirit of Ariana Grande's "thank u, next" music video takes over as MTV airs all four movies that inspired the no. 1 song's visuals. Achieving a massive 170 million views in the two weeks since its release, the music video has instantly become a cultural phenomenon. And the movies to which it refers – ..
Read MoreJohn Lennon and Yoko Ono's "Happy Xmas (The War Is Over)" has been reimagined multiple times since its 1971 release, although that caaaan't stop, also it woooon't stop Miley Cyrus from taking a whack at it. On Friday (December 14), Miley shimmied down the figurative chimney and delivered a special gift for fans: a cover of the holiday common produced by Mark Ronson and featuring Sean..
Read MoreLast night, while some ventured into holiday revelry and others followed along holding their breath as online drama unfolded, Kanye West aired out his grievances with Drake through the a tweetstorm. The full thing took hours. Kim Kardashian West eventually weighed in, also. And all of the while, Ariana Grande was readying the release of her latest single, "Imagine." To back up for a ..
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